Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Robotics Studio - Not Just for Robots! (Julie Lerman)
• Classes That Show Up in Every Project (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Coverity Introduces New Static Analysis Solution for C# (Martin Steve)
• PHPLinq as Cool as Real LINQ? (Mike Borozdin)

Events / Community

• Philly ALT.NET - Thursday July 17 - Building Maintainable Apps with WPF (Brian Donahue)
• DC ALT.NET - 7/24/2008 - LINQ Deep Dive with Scott Allen (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Philly.NET - July 16, 2008 - An Evening with Billy Hollis: WPF + Silverlight (Bill Wolff)
• July Agile Boot Camp Filling Up Quick - Reserve Your Spot Now (Jeffrey Palermo)

Silverlight / WPF

• The Silverlight 2.0 Security Model (Dino Esposito) – Link of the Day
• How to Test Your WPF Applications (jytylr)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Your Software Can’t Heal Itself (Justin Etheredge)
• Are You Sure Added and Refactored Code Is Covered By Tests? (Patrick Smacchia)

SQL Server

• Microsoft to Deliver SQL Server 2008 in August (Steven Bink)
• Query Analyzer or Management Studio? (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• DirectX 11 to Get Announced This Month (Steven Bink)
• The Saga of an Ultimate Virtualization Rig: Part 1 and Part 2 (Andrew Connell)
• iTunes Is Anti-Web (Jeff Atwood)

Blogging

• Podcast #13 – stackoverflow (Jeff Atwood)
• Can Google Docs Work for Live Blogging? (Josh Lowensohn)

Web Development

• Waegis - The Web Cleaner (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Aggiorno, the Italian Colleague You’ve Always Wanted (Peter Eysermans)
• jQuery Goodness and ASP.NET AJAX - Take II (Schalk Neethling)

SharePoint

• Writing Performant Code in SharePoint (Joris Poelmans)
• How to Create Rounded Corners for Web Part Title Bars (Heather Solomon)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: July 9, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 9, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• WMOC#10 - Composite Application Guidance for WPF Is Out and WSOAC#23 - Convenience Over Correctness Debate and WSDAC#10 - VB Futures (Dilip Krishnan)
• Daily Find #86 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight News for July 10, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
• New and Notable 250 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2008 — #321 (Dave Campbell)
• Visual Studio Links #48 (Darren Stokes)
• The Morning Brew #133 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• An Amazing Introduction to NDepend (Patrick Smacchia)
• VB.NET: The Ugly Duckling (Tony Davis)
• DimeCast #20 - Testing Abstract Classes with Rhino Mocks (Derik Whittaker)
• A Sneak Preview of Typemock Racer : Thread Deadlock Finder and Non Paged CLR Host (Roy Osherove)
• Mocking the LINQ to SQL Data Context (Andrew Tokeley)
• Code Generation in Visual Studio Using T4 Templates - Screencast and Sample (David Hayden)
• Keeping LINQ Code Healthy (K. Scott Allen)
• Use This NHibernate Wrapper to Keep Your Repository Classes Simple (Jeffrey Palermo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Spartan Programming (Jeff Atwood)
• Design Patterns - A Deep Dive 3 (Sunny Chaganty)
• Taking on Dependencies (Eric Gunnerson)
• Super Models, Part 2: Avoid Mutators (Dave Laribee)
• Testing the NuSoft Framework (Joel Ross)

Silverlight / WPF

• Tip: Maximal and Minimal Zoom Level in the MultiscaleImage Control (Martin Mihaylov)
• Tip of the Day #15 - Communicating Between JavaScript and Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Using Silverlight to Create a Video Player (David)
• Tutorial on Styles & Templates Now Available (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Video Blog: TooltipService and Custom ToolTip (Corey Miller)
• Newton Physics Extensions for WPF (Chris Cavanagh)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #15 - Pass Browser Cookies and Server Variables as Action Parameters (Stephen Walther)
• Three Quick Ways to Avoid Widows (Karl Swedberg)
• Deploying ASP.NET MVC on ASP.NET 2.0 (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls (Joe Stagner)
• SubSonic 2.1 Released (Rob Conery)
• User Input in Sheep’s Clothing (Phil Haack)

SharePoint

• Custom Event Content Type (Becky Bertram)
• Branding SharePoint - Part 3: Changing the Look and Feel of SharePoint Components - Intro and Web Parts (Heather Solomon)

SQL Server

• Did You Know the History of SQL Server? (Kalen Delaney)

Miscellaneous

• jpboodhoo.com Launches (finally)!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Everyone Could Use a SecondBrain (Bob Walsh)
• 3 More Ways to Supercharge Firefox (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Microsoft Certified Architect Program (Bill Zack)
• Recipe for Making an MVP (Charles Sterling)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #85 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: July 8, 2008 and Innovation Notes: July 8, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 8, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (7/8/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight News for July 9. 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Silverlight Cream for July 8, 2008 — #320 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #132 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology

• Entities and the Law of Demeter (Jimmy Bogard)
• TDD and Hard to Test Areas, Part 1 (Ian Cooper) – Link of the Day
• Incremental Migration (Martin Fowler)

Silverlight / WPF

• Great User Experience Example in a Business Application (Brad Abrams)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 120 - The Odd Couple - A Developer and a Designer Talk About Working with XAML (Scott Hanselman)
• P[e]op[le]Fly (Glen Gordon)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Recursing Into Linear, Tail and Binary Recursion (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 5: Developing .NET Software on a Mac (Keith Elder)
• Some RichTextBox Tricks (Patrick Smacchia)
• The Missing .NET #6: Version Tolerant Serialization (Jason Kemp)
• Scale Cheaply – Memcached (Karl Seguin)
• Long Paths in .NET, Part 3 of 3 Redux (Kim Hamilton)
• Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 2: Cache<KEY, VALUE> (Chad Myers)

C#/VB Pursefight

• Declaring Event Handlers in C# Is Just Painful, Prove Me Wrong Please (Chris Love)
• Creating Event Handlers in C# - The Definitive Guide (Keith Elder)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Hacks (lessthandot)
• Waegis Will Be Live Tomorrow (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Kill Your Users Table (Schalk Neethling)
• HTTP Request Flow Diagram (Simone Chiaretta)

SQL Server

• An Introduction to New T-SQL Programmability Features in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

Events / Community

• User Groups This Week (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Northern NJ .NET User’s Group Meeting: July 8, 2008 (Rachel Appel)

Miscellaneous

• You Don’t Need a Muse: How to Get Your Work Done When You’re Not Inspired (Celine Roque)
• Might Microsoft’s Midori Be ‘Cairo’ Revisited? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Identi.ca Gets a Reply Tab, Actually Becomes Useful (Sarah Perez)
• Is This the Time That 3D Sticks? (Robert Scoble)
• Bash vs PowerShell (Jeffrey Snover)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Morning Coffee 166 (Harry Pierson)
• Silverlight News for July 8, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• LINKBLOG for July 7, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2008 — #319 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #131 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

I thought I would share this list of reference cards / cheat sheets that I have compiled over the last year or so. If I am missing any good ones, please post them in the comments.

• PowerShell 1.0 (Jeffrey Snover)
• PowerShell 1.0 (dzone)
• Visual C# 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster (MS Downloads)
• LINQ to SQL (Ben Hall)
• ReSharper 4 (JetBrains)
• Silverlight 2 (dzone)
• Design Patterns (dzone)
• Design Patterns (Jason McDonald)
• UML (Laurent Grégoire)
• UML (Allen Holub)
• JavaScript (Dave Child)
• jQuery Selectors (dzone)
• Getting Started with AJAX (dzone)
• MS AJAX (Jay Kimble)
• CSS (Leslie Franke)
• SQL Server (Dave Child)
• SQL Server 2005 (Simon Sheppard)
• SQL Injection (Ferruh Mavituna)
• VIM Quick Reference Card (Laurent Grégoire)
• Regular Expressions (Dave Child)
• Regular Expressions (.NET) (regexlib)
• Firefox (Leslie Franke)
• TFS Command Line (TF.exe) (Noah Coad)
• SVN (Ariejan de Vroom)
• Google Search (Nancy Blachman, Tasha Bergson-Michelson, & Jerry Peek)
• Windows XP Command Line (Simon Sheppard)
• SEO (seomoz)
• Gimp (ozh)
• Photoshop (Multiple Versions) (Trevor Morris)

Enjoy!

Design / Methodology / Testing

• ARCast: Biff Gaut on the Microsoft Certified Architects Program (Bob Familiar)
• Estimating Availability of Simple Systems – Introduction and Non-Redundant Systems and Redundant Systems (Michael Janke)
• Who Should Own the Non-Functional Tests? (Simon Brown)
• How to Write Testable ASP.NET WebForms (Davy Brion)
• How Does Design Get Done on an Agile Project? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Conventions-Based Binding (Nate Kohari)
• Introducing Depender - Testability Problem Finder and Extending Depender with Your Own Custom Dependency Rules and Is Moq Too Powerful? (Roy Osherove)
• The Problem with Code Folding (Jeff Atwood)

Silverlight / WPF

• A Tool for Building Circle Arcs with WPF (odewit)
• Themes for Silverlight Applications (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight Web Chat (with WCF Callbacks) (Thomas Halloway)

SharePoint

• You Should Learn SharePoint (Robert Bogue)
• Is VSeWSS 1.2 Ready for Prime Time? (Scot Hillier)
• Exporting Site Content From a SharePoint Content Database for Recovery Purposes (Keith Richie)
• GetFeatureAndDependencies - A SharePoint PowerShell Function (Darrin Bishop)

.NET / Visual Studio

• xUnit ReSharper 4.0 Support and Moq 2.5 Released (David Hayden)
• 2D Game Tutorial Now Available (XNA Team)
• Cool New Features in Rosario (Granville Barnett)
• Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 1: Static Reflection with ReflectionHelper (Chad Myers) – Link of the Day
• Visual Studio Test Results Window Behavior Fix (David Starr)
• Cascading Deletes in LINQ to SQL (Scott Lysle)
• Extension Methods + Atributes = A Whole New World (Shay Friedman)

Web Development

• Gravatar’s New Features and ASP.NET (Mads Kristensen)
• Inclusion of JavaScript Files (Rick Strahl)

SQL Server

• Database Performance: Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later (Ken Downs)

Miscellaneous

• Review of the Check-In Dance (Kyle Baley)
• Being Smart Does Not a Good Developer Make (Justin Etheredge)
• Customer Polarizing - Why Microsoft Will Always Be a Mediocre Giant (Max Pool)
• Do You Have Time to Learn Everything? (Arjan Zuidhof)
• 5 Rules of Thumb for Web Workers (Mike Gunderloy)
• PoshCode - The PowerShell Code Repository (Joel Bennett)
• 10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud (Stacey Higginbotham)
• Why You’ll Have a Long Wait for Microsoft’s Next OS (Ed Bott)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 7, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Interesting Finds: July 6, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Bookmarking the Web - w27/2008 (Erwin)
• LINKBLOG for July 6, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Link Post 49 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (7/6/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight Cream for July 6, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing - July 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #130 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #242 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day